UX meetup - Alexa

Slides from Practical UX meetup - UX without UI - a path towards humanized interaction with computer
https://www.meetup.com/Practical-UX/events/241362915/

Transcript

1. ALEXA ASK MEETUP BOT TO START THE MEETUP
2. WHO AM I?
3. SLOBODAN STOJANOVIĆ CTO AT CLOUD HORIZON AND JS BELGRADE MEETUP ORGANIZER github.com/stojanovic twitter.com/slobodan_
4. WHAT IS VOICE ASSISTANT?
5. VIRTUAL ASSISTANTS THAT USE NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING (NLP) TO MATCH USER VOICE INPUT TO EXECUTABLE COMMANDS.
6. TO ACTIVATE A VIRTUAL ASSISTANT USING THE VOICE, A WAKE UP WORD MIGHT BE USED
7. VOICE ASSISTANTS ARE SUBSET OF CHAT BOTS
8. WHAT IS CHAT BOT?
9. CHAT BOT OR CHATTERBOT IS A TYPE OF CONVERSATIONAL AGENT, A COMPUTER PROGRAM DESIGNED TO SIMULATE AN INTELLIGENT CONVERSATION WITH HUMAN USERS VIA AUDIO OR TEXTUAL INPUT
10. A SHORT CHAT BOT HISTORY
11. • Turing Test (1950) • Eliza (1966) • Parry (1972) • A.L.I.C.E. (1995) • Jabberwacky (2005) • Slack Bot and Amazon Alexa (2014) • Telegram and FB Bots (2015) • Many others (2016)
12. WHAT IS AMAZON ALEXA?
13. ALEXA IS AN INTELLIGENT PERSONAL ASSISTANT DEVELOPED BY AMAZON, MADE POPULAR BY THE AMAZON ECHO AND THE AMAZON ECHO DOT DEVICES
14. ALEXA IS NOT A DEVICE
15. ALEXA CAN CONTROL SEVERAL SMART DEVICES USING ITSELF AS A HOME AUTOMATION SYSTEM
16. WHAT ARE THE MOST POPULAR DEVICES?
17. AMAZON ECHO AND
 AMAZON ECHO DOT
18. OTHER DEVICES: AMAZON ECHO SHOW
 AMAZON ECHO LOOK AMAZON TAP AMAZON FIRE TV
20. HOW DOES ALEXA WORK?
21. FUNCTIONS/APPS FOR ALEXA ARE CALLED ALEXA SKILLS
22. BUILT-IN SKILLS
23. • BASIC SKILLS (HELP, VOLUME CONTROL…) • MEDIA CONTROLS (PLAY MUSIC OR RADIO…) • TIME AND DATE (WHAT TIME IS IT?) • CALLS AND MESSAGING (NEW, FROM MAY 2017) • TO-DO AND SHOPPING LIST (ALEXA CREATE A TO-DO) • NEWS AND WEATHER (WILL IT RAIN TODAY?) • PURCHASING (FROM AMAZON) • MANY MORE (SPORT, MATH…)
24. THIRD-PARTY SKILLS
25. ALEXA APP WITH MORE THAN 10000 SKILLS* *IN FEBRUARY 2017
27. POPULAR THIRD-PARTY SKILLS
28. • PLAN A VACATION WITH KAYAK SKILL • ORDER A RIDE WITH UBER OR LYFT SKILLS • PAIR WINE WITH FOOD WITH MYSOMM SKILL • ORDER PIZZA WITH DOMINO’S PIZZA SKILL • A PERSONAL TRAINER WITH 7-MINUTE-WORKOUT SKILL • ORDER FLOWERS WITH 1-800-FLOWERS SKILL • TURN ON YOUR LIGHTS WITH PHILLIPS HUE • MANY MORE (TRANSLATE, CHECK FLIGHTS…)
29. HOW CAN YOU BUILD ALEXA SKILL?
31. INTENT SCHEMA AND SLOTS
32. LEARN MORE:
 http://amzn.to/1UczDnl
33. THE END
34. ANY QUESTIONS? SLIDES: http://bit.ly/2uwyIaY